Sentence examples for power passage from inspiring English sources

Even the programs' critics concede that they are a rite of power passage for politicians making their way to the top.

Under the rules designed to give Catholics more power, passage of measures in the assembly requires a majority of both religious factions.

While Matthew's Jesus speaks the parable as a means of addressing Roman imperialism and abuse of power, the passage is clearly a polemic highlighting social and class hierarchy.

The finale balanced episodes of hurtling power with passages of delicacy and grace.

He said that the book's cohesiveness is its variety, and noted how Lessing interspaces her "grand designs" and "configurations of enormous powers" with "passages of aching poignancy".

It is an oddly uneven novel with passages of harrowing emotional power juxtaposed with passages of cringe-making clunkiness and torpor.

Both the tax cut and the change of power could complicate passage of spending bills this summer, because there is now less revenue available.

The control obstructions are then optimized by combining the B−1 and B lobed obstructions to significantly reduce the acoustic power at blade passage frequency.

The linguist Dan Jurafsky writes of a phenomenon called semantic bleaching, in which words, most often in the affective realm, lose their power with the passage of time, so that the "awe" fades from "awesome" and "horrible" becomes merely unpleasant.

Using internal pendulum and semi-slow oscillations of the rotor is important for a number of methods for control of vibrational units with inertia excitation of vibrations allowing to signifycantly reduce the motor power required for passage through resonance zone.

In New York, the intoning of victims' names Friday was again the centerpiece of an annual rite that seemed to have retained its power despite the passage of time, with relatives crying through the rain and some still struggling to get the words out.